Reach The Roots: 3rd Annual Kinloch Farm Tour

Join us for a day of fun, learning, and community at the 3rd Annual “Reach the Roots” Kinloch Farm Tour, held at our family farm!
About this Event

Join us for a day of fun, learning, and community at our 3rd Annual "Reach the Roots" Kinloch Farm Tour, held at our family farm in The Plains, Virginia. We hope you'll visit for an inside look at our regenerative farm and conservation efforts while enjoing a variety of family-friendly activities and delicious food.

Here's some of the highlights:

FAMILY FRIENDLY FUN!

• Hayride Tour & Kid's Playground: Take a scenic hayride through our pastures and riparian areas to see our cattle grazing and understand how we protect our waterways. We will also have our famous hay playground set up so the kids can romp and roam!
• Food from Open Fire Catering to benefit Peas & Grace Food Pantry: Open Fire Catering honors the flavors and textures of local ingredients, like our beef, and during the event will showcase their craft. Our friends from Peas & Grace Food Pantry will be helping serve and accepting donations for our smalltown food pantry.
• Music by The Ribbon Rail Ramblers: Enjoy live music from the Ribbon Rail Ramblers, whose homegrown Appalachian fingerpicking style and love of old-school country music were formed right down the road.

EDUCATIONAL STATIONS

• Piedmont Savanna Restoration: Discover our conservation efforts including Piedmont savanna reconstruction and oak woodland restoration. We'll discuss our management techniques and how they impact our ecosystem. We use prescribed burning and grazing, control of invasive plants, and seeding of native plants as part of our restoration program. You'll be able to see how we clean collected seed from our native production as well as examples of the native plants we're using at Kinloch. (Burn gear, bluebird and kestrel boxes, and native plants will be on display)
• Regenerative Land Management: Learn about our regenerative farming practices with hands-on demonstrations of our specialized equipment and tools. Chat with our farm team and see our tractors up close! Hear about our unique genetics and grazing strategies that produce our delicious grassfed beef.

• Eat Strong with Chef Ryan Ross: Explore the pivotal role that nutrient dense foods play in human health and nutrition. Chef Ryan Ross will share in more detail on how our phytonutrient rich grassfed beef plays a role in a diet centered around foods that are nutritionally balanced.

• Rainfall Simulator: What happens when a 2" downpour strikes a field with no vegetation? Where does the water go? What happens when the same rain hits a diversified pature that always has forage coverage? Find out for yourself at the rainfall simulator!

• Meet Our Animals: See our cows, calves, and bulls firsthand and learn why our genetic selection process is so important as we co-create a resilient ecosystem alongside our cattle.
• Farm Store: Our shop is located at the nearby Archwood Green Barns and open until 6pm. Stop by to pick up your favorite cuts of beef and other groceries on your way home.

All of this, and more, is set on our working farm with picturesque vistas of Virginia’s Hunt Country. Bring your friends and family to discover firsthand how we integrate farming and conservation to create a sustainable, thriving ecosystem. We can’t wait to see you and share our story when the weather cools and the leaves change.